Elegant Survival

http://omg.yahoo.com/photos/what-were-they-thinking/3160/1#id=4

When a garment that rises to a point just below the navel is labelled as "high-waisted", you know that things are really upside-down. And the fact that this snarky critic is regularly featured on the front page of Yahoo! is another sign that the end of civilisation is near. I'd love to see what the Hell he is wearing (I can tell his gender from the blatantly sexist comments that Yahoo's staff mysteriously ignore). Apparently, this misanthrope adores the short-legged look that garments below the waist afford one.

Earth to fashion-fools: there's a reason that the middle of the body is called a waist--because it is located at the waist, and not below the navel. One cannot call the area below or at the waist "high-waisted". If you wish to see an example of "high-waisted", just look at the woman in this OMG line-up who is accused of wearing "a curtain". That is a high-waisted dress. Obviously, the nasty writer hasn't seen a real waist in so long that he 

has forgotten what it is. This sort of distortion is what's wrong with the fashion-world and its self-appointed arbiters of taste. They have none, and are trying to lead us astray so that everyone they see looks hideous.